St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1887-07-14
JUDGE POLAND.
Press Comments ON his Life and Char
acter.

JUDGE POLAND.
Press Comments on his Life and Char
acter.
The weekly press of Vermont and
leading papers in other states have so
generally commented on the life and
character of Judge Poland that it
seems fitting that these various esti-
mates should be preserved. To this
end some of them are given herewith.
A Distinguished Man.
Richford Gazette.
He was one of the most distinguish
ed men Vermont ever raised.
Upright and straightforward.
Boston Traveller
He was in public, as in private life,
an upright, straightforward man, with
the quiet courage of conscious integri-
ty.
An Eminent Citizen.
Woodstock Standard.
The death of Judge Poland removes
a most eminent and useful citizen. His
public services and rare ability have
made him a conspicuous figure these
many years.
Cause for GratefuIness.
Essen County Herald.
Let us be grateful that his life has
SO much to the JUS
tice, enterprise, industry and broad
common sense of the bench and the
state generally.
Philadelphia Press
The death of Judge Poland removes
a man who was an honor to his cOun-
try, his state and his party. If there
were giants in his day he must be
among them.
VIII BE Given a Place in History.
BrattIeboro Phani1
In coming years, when all personal
feeling has died away and been forgot
ten with the causes which inspired it,
Judge Poland will be given place in
Vermont history as a strong and USE
full man in time when the state de-
the best from all her children.
VermOnt's Worthy Son.
Troy, N. T., Times.
Judge Poland was always spoken of
in kindly terms as public man of the
school. He had keen
sense of honor, sturdy common sense
and capacity for usefulness that gave
him conspicuous place among the
sons of Vermont. He lived
and died an earnest republican.
A Brainy Man.
Brattle6oro Reformer.
One of the brainiest men Vermont
ever produced was the one who died
so suddenly in the hay field at Water
vile Saturday. Brought up and edu-
Gated in a saw-mill, as he himself used
to say, Luke P. POland's native talents
and vigorous intellectual fibre made
him in many fields of usefulness, as
lawyer, judge, legislator and fnan-
;ier, pre- eminently leader of his
Jimes.
Possible Governor.
Barton Monitor.
The death of Judge Poland removes
one who would, very likely, have been
prominently thought of as a candidate
for governor next year. While a few
things detracted from Judge POland's
popularity, there were a great many in
Vermont who recognized his great
ability and his eminent services, who
would gladly have placed him in the
subernatOrial chair to Ground out" his
career.
Man of Strong Personality.
BelIoaOs Falls Times.
Judge Poland was a man of unique
and strong personality, genial and
more after the manner
IF the old school than of that affected
by Young America. His state always
look peculiar pride in this strongly
Individual man with his upright integ-
'ity of character and purpose. AS a
Judge he had no superior in Vermont.
All his legislative work was credit
20 him and to his constituency, and
lis influence was great up to the day
If his death in the affairs of his town
md county.
One of the AbIest Men of the Country.
Burlington Clipper.
One of the ablest men whom this
country ever produced is dead. With
10 collegiate or academical education
md with only what rudiments oflearn-
ng he could pick up by attending two
II three terms of district school of
ixty years ago this man made himself
famous throughout the west
I'm hemisphere. He did it by force of
character and hard work. Vermont
Iever raised a man of more intellectual |
,Ower than Judge Poland. Less de- |
CRYING men were placed above him as
of Vermnt in the ma
iOnal assembly, but now that he is
cad the people of this state will be-
in to know him for what he really |
Tas.
A Notable Record.
Rural Vermonter.
A life so stirring is rarely lived, SER
ice so constant, SO brilliant, SO dis
at the bar, on the bench,
a the national congress, has still more
arely been rendered. People never
bought of Judge Poland in connection
18th the high public Offices he had fill
d he had far stronger claim to dis
notion it was the manner in which
g discharged the duties of any Office,
,om the lowest to the highest, that
as not made distinguished by the Of
ce of judge, but he made the Office
self one of rare distinction and bril-
ant fame he acquired no increase of
,nown by being clothed with congress
Onal hOnOrs, but his work in the ma
onal legislature gave him a national
nd world wide celebrity. AS in the
ar of the rebellion the Vermont troops
ere often selected for arduous service,
, when congress had any duty of Pc
altar difficulty to assign, this Vermont
was called to the front.